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No. 565,197. Patented Aug. 4, 1896.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 565,197, dated August 4, 1896. Application iiled December 28, 1895. Serial No. 5731650. (No model.)

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Be it known Jthat I, NATHAN G. `Winnikns, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Bellows Falls, in the county of lindham and State of Vermont, have invented a cert-ain new and useful Improvement in Centrifugal Separators, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure l` is a view of a separator embodying said improvement, with the drum and outer case represented as eut in central vertical section. The partitions Within are represented as broken away in part. Fig. 2 is a view of the said separating-partitions in central vertical section on a plane cutting the outer' apexes of the partitions, which in horizont-al cross section are star-shaped, or of some other equivalent shape. The plane of this section is denoted by the dotted line a; of Fig. et. Fig. 3 is a View of the said separating-partitions in central vertical section on a plane cutting the inner apexes of such partitions. The plane of this section is denoted by the dotted line fo' to of Fig. i. Fig. it is a viewr of said separating-partitions in horizontal cross section on plane rc2 :o2 of Fig. 3.

The improvement pertains to a centrifugal separator for separating liquids of different densities, specially applicable to the separation of cream from Whole rnilkJ and the apparatus will be herein described as for use in that connection.

ln the accompanying drawings the letter ct denotes vthe swiftly-rotating drum; l), the cover screwing upon the same; c, the rubber packing at the joint between the two; d, the cream-outlet; e, the blue-milk outlets, and f a feed-pipe constituting an inlet for the whole milk.

The letter A denotes, as a Whole, a continuous partition within the drum, which in its preferred shape is star-shaped in horizontal cross-section, as seen in Fig. et. The inner apexes of this star shaped partition are pierced at intervals along their length by apertures 7L for the infiowing movement of cream. T he outer apexes of this star-shaped partition are, in the main, unpierced by similar apertures.

The Whole milk enters through the feedpipe f and escapes therefrom near the bottom of the drum Within the inner partition A. Here the separation of the cream from the blue milk begins immediately. The latter, under centrifugal force, tends to move radially outward, thereby forcing the cream toward the center. This cream forms itself .into a hollow tube on a line With the creamoutlet, the more watery part of the milk keeping this tube constantly supplied with cream, so that it is in an upright position and is practically, for the time being, as stable in position as a metal tube and keeps that position as long as the separatoris kept supplied with milk and the outlets for cream and milk sustain proper relations to each other. The inflowing Whole milk at the bottom of the partition constantly forces the mass of the liquid upward and outward. The separated or partially-separated milk within the partition A seeking the outer apexes thereof and flowing endwise, it Will-if there be no obstruction to its flow at the upper end of partition A-naturally seek an -escape from the drum through the blue-milk-outlet pipes c. It is, however, possible and desirable to repeat this process to a degree in an outer similar separating-partition, and such an arrangement is shown in the accompanying drawings.

Still speaking of the inner separating-partition A, the letters i and t" denote obstructions to the endwise flow of the milk, which are appurtenant to the outer apexes and are respectively located at or near the respective ends thereof. The letter 'i denotes the uppermost of these obstructions and the letter t' denotes the loWe-rmost, it being, by preference, a floor fastened into the lower end of the inner partition A. Such a floor is of course, in a practical sense, a complete bar to the furtherendwise movement of the liquid in that direction. The obstruction at the top answers in every necessary degree to bar the further endwise motion of the liquid in that direction, and by thus obstructing such endwise .dow of the milk they cause it to flow outwardly through the apertures 7c, each of which is contiguous to one of said obstructions. Meanwhile the cream of the iuner cream Wall escapes from the drum through the cream-outlet d.

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The letter B denotes, as a Whole, an `outer tion A at the top and aperture 7c in partition' B at the bottom the milk is caused to travel upward on the inner Wall of A and downward on the inner Wall of B. Cream that is separated from the milk betweenthe two partitions inds it Way through apertures h in partition A to join the said cream-wall, and cream that is separated from the milk outside of partition l5 finds its Way through both sets of apertures h to join the said cream-Wall, and it may be that some portion thereof finds its Way to said cream-Wall over the top ofthe partitions. y

The letters Z denote stays from one parti-l tion to the other fast,- by preference, to the inner partition. The two partitions can be made as one structure, but it is preferable that they be separate.

Hereinbefore the liquid is spoken of as flowing endwise along the channels formed by the sides of the partitions which converge to the outer apexes of the partitions A and B. That is a main result, but, meanwhile,

under the action of the forces generated by the swift rotation of the parts, the liquid makes much zigzag travel on What are slanting or approximately horizontal lines.

The partitions A and B are spoken of hereinbefore andL hereinafter as being star-shaped in cross-section, and that is their preferred shape, but any `other approximate shape length of the inner apeXes and elosedin the main along the outer apeXes, all substantially Vas described and for the purposes set forth.

2. The rotary drum having inlet for full milk and outlets for blue milk and cream respeetively, in combination with the parti tions A B approximately -star-shaped in horizontal cross-section With apertures along the length of theinner apexesfor the inflowing movement and Closed in the main along the outer apexes but With outer apex passages at one end of partition-A and at the other end of partition B, all substantially as described and for the purposes set forth.

NATHAN e. WiLLiAMs.

Vitnesses FRANK G. DAY, A. J. HOLLEY. 

